The Vogtle expansion in Georgia reportedly faces major challenges that are poised to derail its schedule and ramp up costs—and the project is already behind schedule, a consulting firm tasked with construction oversight of the project told regulators.
Despite an overwhelmingly negative response earlier this year, the Bureau of Land Management is moving forward with most of its planned oil and gas lease sales in Beaverhead and Madison Counties.
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
The consensus that climate change will do obvious damage to long-run stock returns is wrong on a crucial point: that society is sure to act to stop global warming.
Prompted by years of drought and mismanagement, a series of urgent multi-state meetings are currently underway to renegotiate the use of the Colorado River.
Energy giants and conservative groups have been aggressively pushing Trump’s rollback of fuel efficiency rules for automobiles, a Times investigation found.
The 2009 finding underpins federal action on climate change. New research, including on extreme weather and heat, strengthens the arguments for it, a new study says.
Although Germany has been a global leader in moving to decarbonize its massive economy, the country's ambitious clean-energy transformation is faltering.
The Thwaites Glacier is crumbling into the sea. Now scientists must answer two questions: When will it take the plunge? And can our coastal cities be saved?
Amid a slowing economy and a slew of mixed signals from the environment ministry, China's embattled local governments are facing a dilemma: do they go all out to curb smog this winter, or do their best to keep factories humming?
As climate change drives mountain-dwelling pikas to higher altitudes, the animals can dial certain genes up or down to make the most of their cooler home's limited oxygen.
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies and the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute along with the help of more than 50 citizen scientists are documenting changes in the state’s bumble bee population.
Advocates of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are trying to make an end run around the law and the American people. If they succeed, your backyard conservation area could be next.
As the world maps its progress in the battle on climate change, DW's Andrew Wasike asks Michal Kurtyka, head of the executive body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP24, about the talks in Katowice.
Mayor Jack Crompton is asking Calgary-based CNRL to pay in to “the costs of climate change being experienced by Whistler," such as wildfire protection.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called for the world to make a more concerted effort to combat climate change, saying that "if we fail, future generations will judge us all as failures, not just this president."
